What's everyone up to right now?

[c172]

The face you make when you run into a famous person in the bathroom...



(For real, people, it totally just happened.  I was like 'Oh, hey, I know who she is!  Oh, hey, she just stepped into a toilet stall, I should totally not say anything to her...')

Dude, I'm hangin'.

[Seraphina]

The face you make when you run into a famous person in the bathroom...



(For real, people, it totally just happened.  I was like 'Oh, hey, I know who she is!  Oh, hey, she just stepped into a toilet stall, I should totally not say anything to her...')

Pssssst! Who was it?

omg, the suspense is killing me - who was it??

[Ravenshire]

That's just a white piece of paper with a frame around it!
Everyone knows the sky isn't white! It should be blue!

Nice setup btw.

It's Oregon in Feb. No sun 'til June. Just clouds.

[Angrboda]

Watching The Gangs Of New York. Sort of. I've seen it before.

[emjay]

Just finished making (to a workable state... perfecting it will be ongoing) a semi-recursive SQLite database for my philosophy course, basing its design on neurons. Not a bad day's work I wanted to be able to have a hierarchical record of arguments, such that you could go in at any level and see all the propositions, objections, summaries, notes etc at that point... so that I could work back down the tree to the foundations of certain arguments (Aquinas, looking at you  ). So the way it works is that an argument can contain a mixture of other arguments and immediate propositions in any order... so the five ways contains the first way, the second way etc, and any notes I want to make (which are immediate content) or analysis from other people... with a field for references. So I can look at it at the level of the five ways, or go down a level and choose a specific way, and then see its arguments and immediate content. I'm well chuffed, cos I wasn't sure it was going to be possible but it's working beautifully... so I can be organised for my course... yay  and use this db to develop my own arguments and objections etc... so argue it as that same time as learning about it etc. Me happy 

I just realizd... Squishy is studying philosophy... this means maybe me and him can talk philosophy and we'll both be super interested and able to learn something from each other.

EXCITEDLYNESS PANIC! EXCITEDLYNESS PANIC!

[panic emojis removed cos caused too many images in my post to post :-D]

Yarp... I'm obsessed with it now and soaking it up like a sponge... and when I'm not busy soaking it up like a sponge I'm obsessed with finding better ways to soak it up like a sponge first there was making a website, but it was too slow and awkward, then came mind maps, which though hierarchical in a sense, do not allow for much interconnectivity of ideas on different 'branches'... so that was out, then came 'concept maps' which were much better because they have that interconnectivity and thus can be used to represent context, which is what I wanted but can be a little bit messy, especially when a lot of ideas are in play, and finally my little database, which basically takes that interconnectivity and centralises it for better organisation (ie I can do all my work for this course... and philosophy in general... in this one file... though I am happy to still use the concept maps for smaller ideas/summaries and revision, and pen and paper for middle-of-the-night thoughts/rough work that can later be transferred to the database if I want).

db design tangent (giving you the benefit of hide tags because you know how I tend to go off on one when talking about neural networks? well I'm the same about software/database design, so imagine what I'm like when talking about software based on neural networks ):

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Anyway, the database bends the rules of relational database design a little bit by introducing a many to many relationship allowing 'nodes' to be associated with other nodes, and thus allowing for the equivalent of neural contexts... any node can be associated with any other, and each one is the top of its own hierarchy, so limitless associations of ideas can be made, so each argID (argument (node)) can associate with any number of other argIDs, with each association having a seq[uence] number, used for ordering the arguments (and which you can change to change the order of content within an argument to whatever you want... and multiplying by -1 can set to a negative number that retains its order value for when you want to flip it back so that you can hide arguments from display, by having a where condition that only shows arguments with a positive sequence number... a little idea I added so that I could hide rough work... previous drafts etc... when no longer needed but still keep them within the database and in the same logical place in case I ever needed to see my full working again) within a given higher argument (the higher argument in this sense being what I'd consider the post-synaptic neuron that is associating the neurons below it and where the seq number can be likened to the synapses on the dendrites of that post synaptic neuron). And each lower argID being associated with a higher argID in the above case is encased in an intermediate table giving it an instance ID such that it can be used as a placeholder for inserting immediate content (ie could be likened to the immediate sensory input into a neural network) into the flow of an argument at any point (ie any sequence number... synapse) if its argID is set to the same ID of the parent... so here nodes can be self-referential and if that's the case, they can be likened to the branching of the dendrite (seq number) to accommodate any amount of immediate content (the actual text of arguments, comments etc... associated with the placeholder in the same way as args are with other args, and with their own seq numbers for those associations). As such an argument could come out looking like this: higher argID = a, associated with argID b on seq = 1, argID c on seq = 2, argID a (self referential for associating immediate content) on seq = 3 with say three entries associated with that placeholder... which I think I'll call a branchID... thus being for the sake of the query ordering, the equivalent of saying 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, argID d on seq = 4 etc.

Anyway I'm so glad I managed to do this (approximate neural contexts in a db) because I've been wanting to for a long time but didn't think it would be feasible in a relational database. I've made other useful software based on nodes, but it's never quite made the cut for me because of the same problems as mind maps... which represent their data the same way (or at least 'iMindMap' does)... too flat... you can have as many branches as you want, all stemming off root nodes, but no real interconnection between branches which is not good enough if you want to reuse data in different contexts, as a neural network does. But this db solves those problems so I'm well chuffed

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So anyway, when I'm not either learning about philosophy or trying to improve my learning about philosophy, I'm just thinking about philosophy and working on my own theories So I'm well and truly plugged in to the philosophy matrix and so yes I'd love to talk to you about it... not right now... got a Shameless USA to watch now before bed... but are you still watching handegg with Tibs? I haven't watched it for a while but I miss it, and I miss our chats afterwards

[c172]

Looking at tourdates for The Naked and Famous.

[Edwardo Piet]

I just realizd... Squishy is studying philosophy... this means maybe me and him can talk philosophy and we'll both be super interested and able to learn something from each other.

EXCITEDLYNESS PANIC! EXCITEDLYNESS PANIC!

[panic emojis removed cos caused too many images in my post to post :-D]

Yarp... I'm obsessed with it now and soaking it up like a sponge...  and when I'm not busy soaking it up like a sponge I'm obsessed with finding better ways to soak it up like a sponge first there was making a website, but it was too slow and awkward, then came mind maps, which though hierarchical in a sense, do not allow for much interconnectivity of ideas on different 'branches'... so that was out, then came 'concept maps' which were much better because they have that interconnectivity and thus can be used to represent context, which is what I wanted but can be a little bit messy, especially when a lot of ideas are in play, and finally my little database, which basically takes that interconnectivity and centralises it for better organisation (ie I can do all my work for this course... and philosophy in general... in this one file... though I am happy to still use the concept maps for smaller ideas/summaries and revision, and pen and paper for middle-of-the-night thoughts/rough work that can later be transferred to the database if I want).

db design tangent (giving you the benefit of hide tags because you know how I tend to go off on one when talking about neural networks? well I'm the same about software/database design, so imagine what I'm like when talking about software based on neural networks ):

---

Anyway, the database bends the rules of relational database design a little bit by introducing a many to many relationship allowing 'nodes' to be associated with other nodes, and thus allowing for the equivalent of neural contexts... any node can be associated with any other, and each one is the top of its own hierarchy, so limitless associations of ideas can be made, so each argID (argument (node)) can associate with any number of other argIDs, with each association having a seq[uence] number, used for ordering the arguments (and which you can change to change the order of content within an argument to whatever you want... and multiplying by -1 can set to a negative number that retains its order value for when you want to flip it back so that you can hide arguments from display, by having a where condition that only shows arguments with a positive sequence number... a little idea I added so that I could hide rough work... previous drafts etc... when no longer needed but still keep them within the database and in the same logical place in case I ever needed to see my full working again) within a given higher argument (the higher argument in this sense being what I'd consider the post-synaptic neuron that is associating the neurons below it and where the seq number can be likened to the synapses on the dendrites of that post synaptic neuron). And each lower argID being associated with a higher argID in the above case is encased in an intermediate table giving it an instance ID such that it can be used as a placeholder for inserting immediate content (ie could be likened to the immediate sensory input into a neural network) into the flow of an argument at any point (ie any sequence number... synapse) if its argID is set to the same ID of the parent... so here nodes can be self-referential and if that's the case, they can be likened to the branching of the dendrite (seq number) to accommodate any amount of immediate content (the actual text of arguments, comments etc...  associated with the placeholder in the same way as args are with other args, and with their own seq numbers for those associations). As such an argument could come out looking like this: higher argID = a, associated with argID b on seq = 1, argID c on seq = 2, argID a (self referential for associating immediate content) on seq = 3 with say three entries associated with that placeholder... which I think I'll call a branchID... thus being for the sake of the query ordering, the equivalent of saying 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, argID d on seq = 4 etc.

Anyway I'm so glad I managed to do this (approximate neural contexts in a db) because I've been wanting to for a long time but didn't think it would be feasible in a relational database. I've made other useful software based on nodes, but it's never quite made the cut for me because of the same problems as mind maps... which represent their data the same way (or at least 'iMindMap' does)... too flat... you can have as many branches as you want, all stemming off root nodes, but no real interconnection between branches which is not good enough if you want to reuse data in different contexts, as a neural network does. But this db solves those problems so I'm well chuffed

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So anyway, when I'm not either learning about philosophy or trying to improve my learning about philosophy, I'm just thinking about philosophy and working on my own theories So I'm well and truly plugged in to the philosophy matrix and so yes I'd love to talk to you about it... not right now... got a Shameless USA to watch now before bed... but are you still watching handegg with Tibs? I haven't watched it for a while but I miss it, and I miss our chats afterwards

Nah not in a while. At one point he was busy with RL stuff and other times he was modding Mafia games or playing in them I think

Keep it up with the philosophy! Now it's 6:35 A.M. So that's bedtime for me now. Lol.

[c172]

Watching this song from the perspective of God: https://www.facebook.com/thinkingreatape...357432599/

[c172]

Bo Burnham, it is.

[Longhorn]

Currently I'm occupying myself with not snapping.

I can handle one thing out of everything everyone's asking of me at a time. Not twenty seven. I need that holiday right now. Really really badly. Next week I'll be dead already.